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Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development
Clemens, Michael - 2009
countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by … definitions of “development.” Under these definitions, it is only possible to advance development by regulating skilled workers … for development without regulating human movement. The mental shift required to take these policies seriously would be …
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Muscle drain versus brain gain in association football : technology transfer through player emigration and manager immigration
Allan, G. J.; Moffat, John D. - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 7/9, pp. 490-493
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Global Collaborative Patents
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011
In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278572
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Foreign capital and technology transfer in a dynamic model
Gupta, Manash - In: Journal of Economics 67 (1998) 1, pp. 75-92
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Bangladesh and Climate Change: Need for a Comprehensive Adaptive Strategy
eSocialSciences; Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD - 2008
The aim of this paper is to examine the effects climate change will have on Bangladesh and also gives some possible solutions for tackling climate change.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170198
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225768
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Global collaborative patents
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561206
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2016
International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development … emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development … regressions.Keywords: Migration; Institutions; Democracy; Development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000818
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Pathways for labor migration from Northern Central America: Five difficult but necessary proposals
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
Very few labor-based pathways for regular migration are available for people in Northern Central America, often called the 'Northern Triangle' of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. This note briefly summarizes the state of labor-based migration channels in the region. It then argues that...
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